Question

Brief report of rise of scientific forestry project

Answer 1

scientific forestry in Britain

1854

Establishment of Scottish Arboricultural Society

1856

Dietrich Brandis introduces scientific forestry in India

1864

Creation of the Indian Forestry Service

1867

First Forestry students from India are sent to Germany and France

1872

Hugh Cleghorn elected as President of the Scottish Arboricultural Society

1877

John Croumbie Brown delivers a paper at a meeting of the Scottish Arboricultural Society calling for the creation of a forestry school in Scotland

1878

Forestry school established at Dehra Dun, India, for the training of Indian foresters

1881

Brandis retires as Inspector-general of Forests in India and is succeeded by William Schlich

1884

First International Forestry exhibition is held in Edinburgh

1885

Schlich is succeeded by Berthold Ribbentrop

1885

Forestry section at the Royal Engineering College at Coopers Hill, Surrey, established by Schlich for training of foresters for the Indian Forestry service

1889

Lectureship in forestry established at the University of Edinburgh

1891

Colonel F. Bailey appointed as Lecturer in Forestry at the University of Edinburgh

1905

Institute of forestry at Oxford University founded by Schlich

1914

Forestry course established at the University of Aberdeen

1919

Creation of the Forestry Commission in Britain